1978
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Amending Regulations made by the Public Service Commissioner for the Examination of Draughtsmen of the Lands and Survey Department.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912, the Public Service Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor-General in Council, doth hereby revoke the regulations relating to the examination of draughtsmen for a certificate of competency, made on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the tenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and doth substitute for them the regulations hereinafter set forth.

Such substituted regulations shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette, and shall form the conditions governing the promotion of officers of the computing and draughting staffs of the Lands and Survey Department.

REGULATIONS.

DEFINITION.—“Commissioner” means the Commissioner appointed under the Public Service Act, 1912.

1. Examinations (limited to officers of the Lands and Survey Department) for certificate of competency as Computer and Draughtsman, as the subjects of Computations and Draughting are practised and understood in the Department of Lands and Survey, shall be held yearly in or about the month of August, at such times and places as the Commissioner may appoint; provided that a sufficient number of candidates for examination shall have sent in applications before the first day of April preceding to sit for examination.

2. The examiner or examiners shall be such person or persons as the Commissioner shall from time to time determine.

3. There shall be separate papers for and separate certificates issued in connection with each subject.

4. (1.) The certificate obtainable in each examination shall be of three grades, viz. :

   1st Grade: Qualifying for a salary exceeding £300 per annum.
   2nd Grade: Qualifying for a salary exceeding £180 per annum.
   Elementary: Qualifying for the position of Assistant Draughtsman and a salary exceeding £120 per annum.

(2.) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this regulation, an officer who has obtained a second-grade certificate in each of the subjects of Computations and Draughting as aforesaid shall be qualified to receive a salary exceeding £300 per annum.

(3.) Nothing in these regulations shall be so construed as to entitle an officer to claim as of right any salary which he may be qualified to receive by virtue of these regulations, or so as to deprive an officer of any qualification to receive a salary of more than £300 per annum which he had acquired before the date of these regulations coming into force; provided that on and after the 31st day of March, 1921, no officer, unless qualified as last aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive a salary exceeding £180 or £300, as the case may be, unless and until he has duly obtained the respective certificate or certificates prescribed in subclauses (1) and (2) hereof, as qualifying him to proceed beyond that salary, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any general regulations made under and by virtue of the Public Service Act, 1912; provided further that in the case of junior officers, preference will be given to holders of the Elementary Certificate.

(4.) Each candidate passing the examination to the satisfaction of the Commissioner shall be entitled to a certificate accordingly.

5. The syllabus for the examinations shall be as set out in the Schedules hereto.

6. In order to obtain a first-grade certificate in Computing a candidate must gain not less than the following percentages in the subjects set out in Schedule A, viz. :

   In subjects Nos. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, 50 per cent.
   And not less than 60 per cent. of the total possible maximum of marks assignable on the whole paper.

In order to obtain a second-grade certificate in Computing a candidate must gain not less than the following percentages in the subjects set out in Schedule A, viz. :

In subjects Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, 50 per cent.
And not less than 60 per cent. of the total possible maximum of the marks assignable on the whole paper required for this grade.
Subjects Nos. 6 to 12 are not required for this grade.